The Only One Left

By Riley Sager

Book Overview

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Named a summer book to watch by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, USA Today, Oprah, Paste, Country Living, Good Housekeeping, and Nerd Daily

"Propulsive ... a dizzying Gothic whodunit."
--New York Times Book Review

Bestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier.

At seventeen, Lenora Hope
Hung her sister with a rope

Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope's End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.

Stabbed her father with a knife
Took her mother's happy life

It's now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope's End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer--I want to tell you everything.

"It wasn't me," Lenora said
But she's the only one not dead

As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there's more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessor's departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth--and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593183223
• ISBN13: 9780593183229
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Dutton
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Worst condition than I thought for "Like New"

I am excited to read the book, but it was a little bit more beat up than a "Like New" Condition and usually I am not too particular on these types of things.

Suspenseful

Sometimes RS books go one too many twists for me. This one was perfect. Highly recommend.

Plot twists right up to the end!

I had only one part of this figured out but I couldn't fathom where this story would go. It had more twists and turns right up to the very end.

Great thriller

Great twist and turns in every chapter!

Great characters & twists

Awesome twists and kept me reading until I finished within a couple days. Would have been sooner but doc appts had me tied up. Awesome characters. The middle to end had me feeling trying to figure thibgs out. Even when I THOUGHT I had it figured out ...nope! Got whiplash from the twists & surprises!

Loved it!

The twists are twisting! 😱

100/10

The ending was low key all over the place but wow, still an amazing read!!

What a page turner! 10/10!

This was such an excellent book! I was on the edge of my seat the whole time! Every chapter had a clue, and every clue had a plot twist! Such excellent writing!